Affectivity and addressing: Assionara Souza's recipients

Abstract

This paper aims to observe how poetic address is presented in the writing of Assionara Souza (1969-2018). Having published two poetry books, the author has been active in social media posts, in which it is possible to see the production of poems that strengthen the experiences of the woman-self. The following poems from these spaces were selected for analysis: "Águas de Ariel" (2016), "Para Leo Mir" (2017), and "É tarde de segunda-feira" (2018). We observed that the addressing is constructed through affectivity and private writings in a movement that uses given names but allows for the presence and participation of the reader. In order to explore these issues, we analyzed the poems by reading them through the theoretical ideas of Luciana Di Leone (2014) and Celia Pedrosa (2014, 2018) on the notion of affection and addressing in poems that, when produced, use given names as support. We also used the ideas of Luciana Abreu Jardim (2017) on the writing of the private within poetry produced by women. By writing privately, Assionara demonstrates that social media can be an excellent space for the poem’s voice as a channel to establish direct contact with its recipients/readers.